Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction: Of Plagues, Predictions, and Physicians • (2002) • essay by Gary Westfahl
• 9 • The Science Fiction of Medicine • (2002) • essay by H. Bruce Franklin
• 23 • The Missionary Physician, from Asclepius to Kevorkian • (2002) • essay by Frank McConnell
• 31 • No Cure for the Future: How Doctors Struggle to Survive in Science Fiction • (2002) • essay by Kirk Hampton and Carol MacKay
• 53 • From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. McCoy: M.D.s and Ph. D.s in Science Fiction • (2002) • essay by Joseph D. Miller
• 67 • The Immunology of Science Fiction: Maupassant's "Horla," the Medical Frame, and the Evolution of Genres • (2002) • essay by George E. Slusser [as by George Slusser]
• 83 • Surgical Evolution, or, The Scalpel as Shortcut: The Doctor as Interface between Science Fiction and Horror • (2002) • essay by David Hinckley
• 95 • Sickness unto Death: Heart of Darkness and Journey to the End of the Night • (2002) • essay by David K. Danow
• 101 • Big Brother as Doctor: Curing the Disease of Thoughtcrime in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four • (2002) • essay by Robert Van Cleave
• 111 • Doctors' Ordeals: The Sector General Stories of James White • (2002) • essay by Gary Westfahl
• 119 • Doctors of the Mind: Effective Mental Therapy and Its Implications • (2002) • essay by Greg Bear
• 127 • 1950s Science Fiction Film Doctors and the Battle between Individualism and Conformity • (2002) • essay by Susan A. George
• 133 • Synthetics, Humanity, and the Life Force in the Alien Quartet • (2002) • essay by Mary Pharr
• 141 • The Body Apocalyptic: Theology and Technology in Films and Fictions of the MIME Era • (2002) • essay by Howard V. Hendrix
• 151 • Bibliography of Science Fiction Works Involving Disease and Medicine. • (2002) • essay by uncredited